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Global bond markets found their footing on Friday morning, with yields slipping back after a turbulent Thursday in which government borrowing costs in Europe and the US hit multi-decade highs. Yields, which rise when bond prices fall, retreated as Brent crude slipped about 2% to around $99.95 a barrel, tempering fears that the energy shock would keep inflation high and force central banks into more rate hikes. In the UK, the yield on 30-year government bonds, or gilts, fell to around 5.92% after climbing above 6% on Thursday for the first time since 1998. The 10-year yield dropped to about…
Published on 02/10/2026 – 11:13 GMT+2 In December 2025, Elon Musk visited the White House for a secret meeting with the US President, with Trump spending hours asking AI chatbot Grok questions about his presidency and legacy and how Venezuelans would react if US forces captured President Nicolás Maduro, Time magazine reports. According to an official present at the meeting, the chatbot responded that Maduro was a repressive and deeply unpopular dictator and that many Venezuelans would likely celebrate his downfall. Following the US capture of Maduro in January of this year, Venezuelans did indeed celebrate in large numbers all…
NB: Spoiler-free review. A billionaire narcissist’s hunger for power and proclivity for manipulating public narrative for personal gain threatens to unleash a worldwide disaster. If you’re looking for escapism, Digger may not be the way to go. But that’s not the only reason you’ll want to stay away. Digger Rockwell (Tom Cruise) is an aging oil tycoon whose 38-year-old cat is circling the drain. But poor Maggie, who has somewhere between “two weeks and five minutes” left to live, will have to wait as her master’s reckless drilling in Greenland has unleashed methane chaos. This results in a massive explosion…
Welcome to Declassified, a weekly humor column. As you will no doubt have marked in your calendars, the end of the world is scheduled for the spring of 2029 (exact timing TBC). It’s just a few weeks now since researcher Jacob Coxon announced his resignation from Anthropic, stating that AI “could kill us all by the end of the decade.” A senior safety researcher at Anthropic then claimed there was a more than 10% chance that AI “could kill all humans” within the next decade. That means humankind will outlast the EU, as the bloc’s demise is penciled in for…
US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth is launching an office of religious affairs, the latest of his faith-related reforms at the Pentagon. He announced in a speech on Wednesday that the office will help offer “first-class religious support” and will report directly to him. “Our department is, you might say, putting on the full armour of God, because while we wage physical war, we all know the real battle is spiritual,” he said. Hegseth has infused his evangelical Christianity into his leadership of the Pentagon, hosting worship services for employees and often speaking of the United States as a Christian nation.…
Countries along the Trans-Caspian Corridor, backed by the European Union, are trying to make the route faster and more predictable, with a target of cutting transit times from around 35 days to between 15 and 20. For cargo moving west from Uzbekistan, the route can run through Kazakhstan to the Caspian Sea, cross by ferry to Azerbaijan, and continue through Georgia and Türkiye towards Europe. It combines railways, roads, ports and maritime links that have to work together across several national transport systems. Improving how those different parts of the route work together was a central focus of the second…
By Roselyne Min with AP Published on 02/10/2026 – 8:15 GMT+2 More than 1,000 LEGO fans from 36 countries have gathered in a small Danish town, Skærbæk, near Billund, the toy giant’s hometown, to celebrate their love of the plastic bricks. At Skærbæk Fan Weekend, Adult Fans of LEGO (AFOLs) find a community around a hobby often associated with children. The fan-run event welcomes people who build their own creations as well as those who collect sets. “It’s a place where AFOLs come together, no matter where they come from, no matter which language they speak, no matter what they believe in,” said…
The job of West Midlands mayor — who holds one of the largest single electoral mandates of any British politician — will come up for election again in 2028. Street has continued to make appearances around the region, including visiting the scene of wildfires outside Birmingham over summer. He also has a busy schedule at the Conservative Party Conference this weekend in the same city, including with the center-right policy network Prosper which he co-founded with former Scottish Conservatives Leader Ruth Davidson. Prominent Conservatives from the center-right flank have, however, been blocked from the party’s list of candidates for the…
Published on 02/10/2026 – 8:53 GMT+2 British Police arrested a dual UK-Iranian national on Thursday on suspicion of plotting a terror attack following a security incident at a military air base in England that authorities have linked to Tehran. The 25-year-old man was arrested in central London on Thursday and police have searched two properties in the capital, Counter Terrorism Policing said in a statement. Five men, all British nationals in their 20s and from London, were arrested in the early hours of Sunday on suspicion of explosives and terror offenses close to the RAF Fairford air base, which has…